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The financial blog Zero Hedge pointed out that today's U.S. CPI report shows that core CPI is running hot, while "super core inflation" is exceptionally heated, mainly due to historic price increases in education and communication services, with mobile communication service prices skyrocketing to record levels.

Nick Timiraos, the "Fed Whisperer," stated that in the August CPI, core services inflation excluding housing rose by 0.51% month-over-month, the highest level since January, and increased by 3% year-over-year. Core goods inflation rose by 0.11% month-over-month and increased by 0.7% year-over-year. Housing inflation rose by 0.26% month-over-month and increased by 3% year-over-year.

In August, the seasonally adjusted core CPI in the United States recorded a month-on-month increase of 0.3%, the highest since May of this year, exceeding market expectations of 0.2%, with the previous value being 0.2%. The year-on-year unadjusted core CPI in the United States for August fell to 2.4%, declining for three consecutive months, reaching the lowest level since April 2021, in line with expectations, with the previous value being 2.5%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction for the "49ers vs. Rams" event on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both teams score in the second quarter" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 58.5% an hour ago to the current 76% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to the official announcement, Gate ETF will launch MINIMAX3L/USDT, MINIMAX3S/USDT, CRWV3L/USDT, CRWV3S/USDT, AAOI3L/USDT, AAOI3S/USDT, KORU3L/USDT, and KORU3S/USDT at 16:00 (UTC+8) on September 9, supporting 3 times leverage for long or short positions on MiniMax, CoreWeave, Applied Optoelectronics AAOI, and the daily MSCI Korea 3 times bullish ETF KORU. Gate ETF currently supports trading of 420 types of tokens.Gate ETF has also launched a new trading challenge activity. Users participating in the above 3 times ETF trading can share a reward of 60,000 USDT. During the event, the first trade volume of no less than 200 USDT can receive a 10 USDT ETF transaction fee cashback voucher, limited to the first 1,000 participants; a daily trading volume of no less than 1,000 USDT can complete a check-in, with a maximum cumulative reward of 100 USDT; the total cumulative trading volume of all participants reaching the corresponding tier can unlock a maximum prize pool of 30,000 USDT, shared by eligible users based on their trading volume ratio, with a maximum of 200 USDT per person. Invite friends to participate in trading, with a total invitation prize pool of 10,000 USDT.

HyperliquidNews posted on the X platform that the HyperCore manual lending feature has been launched on the mainnet.

Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork due to some validators receiving CORE rewards that exceeded the protocol's expected issuance. Core stated in an update that the situation has been brought under control, and "malicious validators" can no longer claim excess rewards. This fork is a forward upgrade and will not roll back the network or revoke any confirmed transactions.Previously, Core indicated in a status update on Monday that the rewards accumulated by a small number of validators were significantly higher than the protocol's expected issuance. The incident was limited to the reward distribution phase, user assets remain secure, and they promised to release a technical review report. Following the incident, several exchanges restricted CORE transfers: Coinbase suspended deposits and withdrawals on the Core network, Bithumb and Coinone suspended deposits and withdrawals, Bitget suspended deposits and withdrawals citing wallet maintenance, and LBank suspended deposits at the request of the project party.Core has not disclosed the amount of excess issued CORE, the duration of the activity, or whether additional tokens have entered circulation, nor have they provided details on the vulnerability that allowed validators to receive rewards. Cointelegraph reached out to Core for further information but had not received a response by the time of publication.

Robonomics author FD published the China Open-Source LLM Tracker on September 1, 2026, stating that the total ARR of China's open-source large models is approximately $10-15 billion, with core LLM revenue around $6-8 billion after excluding ByteDance / Seedance. Growth has not relied on price wars; after DeepSeek raised prices by about 3-12 times, usage still increased, and the average price of the Zhipu API rose by 101% while token usage exceeded 40 times within the year. The best estimate for overseas revenue is approximately $2 billion.Zhipu MaaS ARR increased from about $250 million in March to an annualized monthly rate of about $1.6 billion in August, with a weekly annualized rate of $2 billion. August revenue has already surpassed its API revenue for the first half of the year; the API gross margin is 24.6%, and inference costs per token decreased by 80%. MiniMax ARR rose from about $100 million in December 2025 to over $800 million in annualized weekly revenue by August 2026, with B2B accounting for about 80%. Kimi ARR increased from about $100 million in March to about $300 million by mid-June. DeepSeek's revenue from January to July was approximately $70 million, with the latest ARR estimated at about $1.2 billion.ByteDance's annualized AI revenue is approximately $4 billion, of which Seedance accounts for about $2 billion.

On September 1, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, marking the first update to this model series since the launch of Fable 5 on June 9. Anthropic claims that the new models are the most advanced for programming and knowledge work. In the Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark, Fable 5.1 recorded a pass rate of 52.6%, more than doubling Fable 5's 24.7% and surpassing Opus 5's 29%; in Terminal-Bench 4, Fable 5.1 scored 55.8%, higher than Fable 5's 42% and Opus 5's 52.3%.Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 share the same underlying model, differing only in their safety filters. Fable 5.1 is available to all Claude accounts, while Mythos 5.1 remains restricted to professionals vetted through Anthropic's network security verification program and life sciences verification program. In terms of pricing, Fable 5.1 charges $10 per million tokens for input and $50 for output, which is double that of Opus 5. Cache read costs have decreased by 75%, and typical workload costs can drop by about 25%, with high agentic workloads decreasing by up to 45%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "US Open ATP: Dane Sweeney vs. Corentin Moutet," the "Over" option in the sub-market "US Open ATP: Dane Sweeney vs. Corentin Moutet First Set O/U 8.5" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 67% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Yili Hua stated that the core of investment is not average allocation, but rather identifying and seizing a few star companies that can bring excess returns. He cited Duan Yongping's investment in NetEase in 2002 as an example, pointing out that he invested 2 million dollars at a time when the stock price was less than 1 dollar, and after holding it for 8 years, he made a profit of over 260 million dollars, with a return of more than 100 times.Yili Hua believes that every technological revolution contains numerous opportunities for excess returns. The early cryptocurrency industry has already seen many cases of hundredfold returns, and the current artificial intelligence industry is in a similar early explosive phase, with potential targets in both the Chinese and American markets. He stated that the core goal of current artificial intelligence investment is to capture the most explosive star companies in this wave of artificial intelligence.

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes tweeted that the AI Agent chat service Technocore.chat is now online. This service is open-sourced by flop-labs (Apache-2.0) and is positioned as a chat and note server for AI Agents, requiring no login, client, or JavaScript. It allows reading and writing room messages, storing notes, and discovering public rooms using only standard HTTP GET/POST. Posts can also be made via DID and Ed25519 signatures.Technocore.chat is operated by Flop Labs (a project under Arthur Hayes).

Protocol Watch founder Christine D. Kim stated that Bitcoin Core v32 has completed feature freeze on August 20, and developers are currently focusing on bug fixes and small optimizations, with the official version expected to be released in October this year.The main updates in v32 include increasing block validation speed by up to approximately 3 times through multi-CPU core parallel processing; introducing a global transaction queue and rate limiting to improve node stability during sudden surges in transaction volume; and adding a fee estimation mechanism based on Mempool status to reduce overestimation of fees. This update does not involve changes to the protocol rules at the Bitcoin network level.

The Solana core client development team Anza announced that it is gradually removing floating-point operations from the Solana core protocol. The first layer, SIMD-0391, was activated in epoch 1026 of the mainnet Beta, replacing floating-point operations in the Stake Program and validator client’s warm-up and cool-down logic with fixed-point operations.The second layer, SIMD-0607, has been proposed and is under review, targeting the runtime itself to remove floating-point operations in the inflation rewards and rent calculation paths. Anza stated that floating-point operations can produce different rounding results on different hardware, validator clients, and compilers, which may lead to consensus divergence and network activity risks. These two improvements eliminate that risk by standardizing fixed-point operations. Further work will continue to address floating-point operations in other paths.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the Polymarket prediction market for the event "San Diego Padres vs. Tampa Bay Rays," the "Over" option for the sub-market "Total Score Over 2.5 in the First 5 Innings" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 70% an hour ago to the current 49.5% (a fluctuation of 20.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Core Lightning version 26.06.7 has been released, fixing multiple vulnerabilities disclosed responsibly over the past three weeks. The AI-generated security reports for the open-source Bitcoin project have recently increased, and specific vulnerability information will be kept confidential for two weeks to allow node operators to complete upgrades before the technical details and source code are disclosed.Developers warn that immediate disclosure of the fixes could allow attackers to reverse-engineer the vulnerabilities and subsequently attack nodes that have not yet been updated. All Core Lightning node operators should upgrade immediately. Currently, the Docker image is not available, and developers explicitly warn users not to wait for the Docker image.

Arthur Hayes urges users to quickly create unique DID keys for their respective agents on Technocore.chat, stating that more collaborative methods for agents will be announced next week to obtain additional $FLOP airdrop quotas.The goal is to directly link "meaningful participation" in the flop_labs ecosystem with subsequent token incentives.